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Monday, March 7, 2016

Sweet Blush Thank You; Card

Howdy! and welcome to my little piece of blog-land. Here, is where I share my passion for card making, and sometimes cupcakes {smile}. I really do find joy, and peace when I am creating. And it doesn't matter if it is baking or paper crafting. The joy is the same.

I wanted to make another card to add to my Etsy shop, located HERE. But I needed some inspiration, so I set out to a favorite challenge site, and stumbled upon a new (to me) challenge site {smile}.

One of my favorite challenge site I visited, Just Us GirlS #333. It's their 'word week', and this week's word is FLOWERS! On my! I love adding flowers to my paper crafts, so I am playing along with these beautifully creative ladies!

The last challenge I am entering is a 'new' challenge site for me. I stumbled upon this challenge from visiting a fellow blogger that I follow. This challenge site is eastern European. They do not have a 'translate' button, so copy and paste the text into Google Translator. Shabby Scrap - use rose(s).

here is what I made:

Recipe: I used Cream card stock by Paper Trey Ink for the card base. This card stock is a heavy weight, and wonderful as a card base. The card size is A6 (4 1/4" x 6").

The three pattern papers are digital papers. I just fell in love with the pale pink, and blush colors! I sponged the floral digital paper with crumb cake classic ink. I trimmed and sponged the library card digital paper. I rounded two of the corners for a different look, other than a right angle. I adhered these two digital papers together before I added the machine stitching. I also added dimensional glaze to the 'front' blue bird. I loved the pop of color!

I added cream twine to the trio of blush vintage buttons, and adhered them to the card front with my glue gun.

I used a leaf punch and some shimmer green textured card stock to create the leaves. I tucked the leaves under the two pale pink paper blossoms. The larger pink blossom is from Prima Marketing. The smaller pink blossom is a 'carnation' from an on-line shop.

I trimmed the journalling piece into a tag. I sponged the edges, and added a hole for the seam binding. I did a simple loop of pale pink seam binding and tied a simple bow with a pale pink/blush colored thin tinsel. I added a pale blush paper blossom to the bow. The tag was adhered to the card front with foam tape.

I stamped the sentiment onto vellum card stock and adhered to the front of the tag. (I added my adhesive where the lettering is, so that the adhesive wouldn't show through.)

I used the Signature Greetings, by Amuse Studios. I heat embossed the sentiment with antique gold embossing powder.

Thank you for looking! I hope you have been inspired to play along with any or all of these challenges! I will be adding this card to my Etsy shop in the next few days. {smile}

2 comments:

Simply stunning. An amazing piece of art. Love the soft colours and all the gorgeous elements you used.So glad you shared it with us at Just Us Girls this week. Hope you will be back visiting us again soon.Thank you.